High capacity satellite communications system
AssigneeHughes Network Systems, LLC
InventorsDave A. Roos, Adrian Morris, Stanley Kay
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Abstract
A high capacity satellite communications system including a satellite with a beam for a forward downlink focused on a geographic area for which disproportionately higher capacity is desired, a hub located in a geographic area for which disproportionately lower capacity is desired, compared to the location of a VSAT, and the VSAT located in area where a beam for a forward downlink received by the VSAT from the satellite does not overlap with a beam for a return downlink received by the hub from a satellite.
Claims27
A high capacity satellite communications system comprising:
- at least one satellite with at least one beam for a forward downlink focused on a geographic area for which disproportionately higher capacity is desired;
- at least one hub located in a geographic area for which disproportionately lower capacity is desired, compared to the location of at least one VSAT;
- and
- the at least one VSAT located in an area where a beam for the forward downlink received by the VSAT from a satellite does not overlap with a beam for a return downlink received by the hub from a satellite.
A high capacity satellite communications system comprising:
- a VSAT population comprising VSATs;
- a hub population comprising hubs, wherein the hub population is geographically segregated from the VSAT population;
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- at least one satellite comprising at least one multiplexer configured to multiplex data received from a hub in the hub population.
A method for a high capacity satellite communications system comprising:
- constructing at least one hub in an area for which disproportionately less capacity is desired;
- configuring the at least one hub to use a return bandwidth that is no more than half a forward bandwidth;
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- configuring at least one satellite to use as few carriers as possible based on the continuity of the frequencies available to the at least one satellite.
A high capacity satellite communications system comprising:
- a VSAT population comprising VSATs;
- a hub population comprising hubs, wherein the hub population is geographically segregated from the VSAT population;
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- at least one hub comprising at least one multiplexer configured to multiplex data originating from the at least one hub in the hub population.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.